4 common ways that the Lord is speaking to you:

1. His word

2. His Holy Spirit

3. His People

4. Your Circumstances

THE LORD WANTS TO SPEAK TO YOU!

Application: Get in a house church and let’s keep God’s word together to fulfill the great open door of the church of Philadelphia.

“Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.”

- Revelation 3:10 ESV

Application:

1. Name the race God has set before you?

2. What training are you doing to run that race?

3. Tell yourself it’s worth it because of the joy set before you.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

- Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV

Application:

1. Name a Bible promise you would like to experience.

2. What did the Bible guy have to endure to experience it?

3. What are you ready to endure to inherit that promise?

“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus...”

- Romans 15:4-5 ESV

Application:

1. Name the character you would like to have.

2. What endurance do you need to have to develop that character?

3. Start today.

“We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

- Romans 5:3-5 ESV

Application:

1. Name the life you are trying to gain. (Good marriage, joy in the pandemic, not dying in the pandemic, etc.).

2. Name the endurance you need to go through to gain your life?

3. Make a commitment right now to start the process

“By your endurance you will gain your lives.”

- Luke 21:19 ESV

This podcast is intended to impart faith and courage for us to become the hands and feet of Jesus in our everyday lives. We truly believe that “The best is yet to come.” ___________________________________________________

“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”

- Isaiah 43:19 ESV

Application: The new thing at ALC is house churches. Are you embracing them? Embrace the new smaller group form of Christianity and you will feel the positive energy of the Holy Spirit flowing through you.

This podcast is intended to impart faith and courage for us to become the hands and feet of Jesus in our everyday lives. We truly believe that “The best is yet to come.” ___________________________________________________

“Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy; no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”

- Isaiah 54:16-17 ESV

Application: Are you feeling “fangry”? Use your Christian birthright to speak a God’s word today until you are delivered from “fanger” and you will feel the positive energy of the Holy Spirit flowing through you.

This podcast is intended to impart faith and courage for us to become the hands and feet of Jesus in our everyday lives. We truly believe that “The best is yet to come.” ___________________________________________________

“The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.”

- Isaiah 50:4-5 ESV

Application: Are you feeling negative? Ask the Holy Spirit to show you someone else you can speak an encouraging word to, and you will feel the positive energy of the Holy Spirit flowing through you.

This podcast is intended to impart faith and courage for us to become the hands and feet of Jesus in our everyday lives. We truly believe that “The best is yet to come.” ___________________________________________________

“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”

- Isaiah 43:1-2 ESV

Application: Is your our worst fear making you go negative? Thank the Lord (out loud) that He is with you today to walk right through that fear and you will have the positive energy of the Holy Spirit flowing through you.